Etymology

boodie

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Scottish Gaelic bodach ← Middle Irish botach
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boodie · noun1

Variant of body.

boodie · noun2

  1. Middle Irish · derived frombotach“serf, rustic, peasant”
  2. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed frombodach“old man, churl, miser, ghost”
  3. English todayboodie

Modification of Scottish Gaelic bodach (“old man, churl, miser, ghost”), from Middle Irish botach (“serf, rustic, peasant”), from bot (“penis”) + -ach.

boodie · noun3

From Nyunga burdi.

Words from the same roots

Scottish Gaelicbodach all →

bod

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